Archive for the 'jQuery' Category

Today I’ve released version 1.1.0 of jQuery.themescript.  This release includes some significant improvements that make it far more functional in the real world. The original design concept was for a web store framework I was working on.  I wanted each store be able to easily change their javascript based themes without making changes to the [...]

LABjs is an excellent javascript library that performs asynchronous loading of javascript files. This can help to greatly increase the load speed of your web pages. Now, instead of blocking while one file is being downloaded, other scripts further down the chain can be downloaded while waiting. On top of that, it can maintain processing [...]

In a project I was working on I was using jQuery UI and wanted to put a spinner on a numeric text box.  Then I discovered that jQuery UI, while an excellent UI library, doesn’t yet have a spinner widget.  So I decided to write one myself, and hope that one day it gets included [...]

In the last few months, I’ve discovered jQuery and jQuery UI, which are a pair pretty awesome of open source javascript libraries.  I know, I’m a little behind the times here, but all I can say is “Wow”.  Frankly, using jQuery makes the AJAX library that comes with .NET 3.0/3.5 from Microsoft seem foolish and [...]